Word: alejandro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guatemalan dispute over British Honduras, to be heard in April at The Hague, when the court meets for the first time with these Assembly-elected judges: Charles De Visscher (Belgium), J. Philadelpho de Barros e Azevedo (Brazil), Sir Arnold D. McNair (Britain), John E. Read (Canada), Hsu Mo (China), Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha (Egypt), J. Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador), Jules Basdevant (France), Fabela Alfaro (Mexico), Helge Klaestad (Norway), Bohdan Winiarski (Poland), Sergei B. Krylov (Russia), Green H. Hackworth (U.S.), Milovan Zoricich (Yugoslavia...
...Ponce critic who did not flee to the Mexican Embassy was Alejandro Cordova, bald little Congressman and publisher of El Imparcial. One day Publisher Cordova was murdered by assassins. Last week Ponce held a closely supervised election to name, among others, a successor for Deputy Cordova. People shouting "Viva Arevalo!" were clapped in jail. Then the revolution broke out. Before he left for Mexico, General Ponce occupied Arevalo's former suite in the Mexican Embassy...
...Alejandro Chiapasco was a mouse-poor Florentine expatriate a few years ago when he met the keeper of the Buenos Aires morgue, Dr. Juan B. Bafico. Chiapasco needed money, a chance to work; above all, he longed for a place where he could work at his sculpting. Dr. Bafico was a kindly man, one of the kindliest who ever kept a morgue. So Dr. Bafico managed to shell out enough to keep Sculptor Chia pasco alive, and gave him a studio in the basement...